خب نمیخام در مورد محتوا نظر بدم. ولی یه چیزی برام خیلی جالب بود. اینکه کتابی که خریدم واسه سال 97 بود و قیمتش28 تومن!!! خیلی وقته کتابی با این حجم و کیفیت رو به این قیمتها نه دیدم نه شنیدم. جالبترش این بود که این اخرین نسخه ای بود که از شهر کتاب خریدم. یعنی اونقدر متقاضی نداشته که چاپهای تازه ترشو نیاوردن و این کتاب اونقدر مونده بود که قشنگ برگه هاش بوی نای صندوق مامان بزرگا رو میداد. اگه منم نمی رفتم بخرمش احتمالا حالا حالاها تو قفسه انتشارات چشمه می موند و برا خودش عتیقه ای میشد. وای چقدر خوشحالم

Maybe, if I had not read the previous three books in the series, I would have enjoyed this book as a nice love story with only a few science fiction elements but I can´t ignore that I read the previous three, so this book was not at all what I expected.
I liked the concept of the story and the idea with the dolphins, but I think it would have been better as a subplot because with this story as a main plot this book was very fast paced in my opinion (even though it is a very short book) and only the last few pages became really exciting. It just wasn´t this funny type of space traveling like the other three books. I liked Fenchurch as a new character but I also missed Zaphod and Trillian and I thought that it was explained very half-hearted what happend to them.  Of course I liked that we saw Marvin again at the end of the book and I found his scene as well funny as kind of touching but nevertheless I hoped for even a bit more intensity for the decease of this character.
Overall this book had again parts which made me smile but through the fact that I felt a bit bored through more than a half of it, I can not really say that I "liked it", so I can give it only 2.5 of 5 stars. I hoped that the fifth one (which is also the last one written by Douglas Adams himself) will come back to the old standard of the series.

شاید وقتی کتابو میخونی به خصوص تو جلد یک داستان شبیه یه هذیون یه شبه به نظر برسه، اما وقتی تا اینجا جلو میای بیشتر میفهمی که چه ذهن خلاقی پشت هذیوناست که برای هر یه جمله رها شده میتونه یه جلد کتاب دربیاره.
این کتاب داستان فنچرچه که توی کتاب اول حضوری خیلی خیلی کوتاه داشت. اما حالا با بازگشت یکباره کره زمین و غیب شدن دلفین های قدرشناس که تو اخرین خداحافظیشون برای ماهیا تشکر کردن، هنوز به یاد داره ک کره زمین نابود شده.
انتظار پایان بهتری داشتم، نمیگم بد بود اما شاید جلد قبل و شکل جمع و جور شده انتهاییش بد عادتم کرده بود، به خصوص که باید منتظر بمونم و پایان زیادی باز بود.
به هر حال
برای مزاحمت‌های ایجادشده پوزش می‌طلبیم.
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لینک طاقچه

This was so differently toned when compared to the previous books, that I was mostly confused for the first third of the book. Not that it's a bad thing that this is a more straight-forward comic romance, but I did miss most of the characters (mainly Marvin, who only shows up for the final funniest/most depressing chapter, where God's Final Message is unraveled).
It's also really tight and feels sometimes rushed (which is consistent with Adams' difficulty of meeting his editor's deadline), but overall still pretty amusing.

'There was a point to this story, but it has temporarily escaped the chronicler's mind.'

در جلد چهارم از اين مجموعه آرتور و فورد دو باره به سياره ي زميني باز مي گردند كه نابودي آن را به چشم خود ديده بودند و بر خلاف انتظار آنها زمين و زمينيان به زندگي ادامه ميدهند، در اين قسمت آرتور با دختري آشنا مي شود كه بر خلاف سايرين از تغييرات بوجود آمده با خبر است و او و آرتور تصميم به اتواستاپ زني دوباره در كهكشان مي زنند و اين بار در جستجوي ديدن آخرين پيام ايزد به مخلوقاتش هستند كه در سياره اي دور در دشتي فراخ با حروفي اتشين بر قله اي حك شده است.
آخرين پيام ايزدبه مخلوقاتش چه مي تواند باشد؟
پ ن: انسانها و شايد ساير موجوداتي در كهكشان بي كران، با فرصتي كمتر از لحظه اي و نامطمئن از هر انچه دارند و هستند، شايد واقعا كره ي زمين و ساكنانش تنها يك پروژه ي تحقيقاتي ساير موجودات در اين سياره ي سبز و آبي هستند.
مگر فرقي هم مي كند؟

This book is very clever and funny. However, it is a barrage of non-stop jokes. This can become grating after a while, and sometimes you wish for a semblance of plot. The best in the series, perhaps because it takes place primarily on Earth and also involves a love story.

بابت مزاحمت‌های ایجاد شده پوزش میطلبیم.

Not what I would have expected! This book is very different from the first three books in the Hitchhiker's Guide series, which I supposed is apt for the fourth book of a trilogy.

I wasn't overly bothered by the fact that everything took place on earth (though the fact that the earth still apparently exists may take a bit of the underlying pathos out of the earlier works). I thought some of it was delightful, and I got a really big kick out of the Rain God, whenever he showed up. The giant robot at the end was also a lot of fun, and I laugh whenever I think of him lying awkwardly on his face on the beach at Bournemouth.

There's a shift in tone, though as well. I didn't like that as much. Adam's books have always been pretty cynical, but it's always been balanced out by the fact that there's an inherent wonder to them as well. The satire works so well because it's set against such a fabulous backdrop. When things stay earthbound, the satire is a bit more hum-drum, and the book as a whole has a bit of a darker feel.

The plots also a bit haphazard - I almost got the sense that Adams just didn't really enjoy writing this one as much. It has it's moments, but I don't think it really stands up to the first three.

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“God's Final Message to His Creation:
'We apologize for the inconvenience.”

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I enjoyed this entry more than the last one and this is mainly due to having a bit of a different approach to storytelling than just the random shenanigans that Adams likes to focus on. I have seen the book be described as a love story which is partly accurate. A large chunk of the novel is also set back on Earth instead of adventuring around in space which really helped to make the series a bit more fresh again for me. Apart from these structural changes much of the writing and the humor remains the same. Enjoyable enough to read about but a tad forgettable in the long run. While I think this was a good entry I still feel like the series stagnated a bit after the first two books.

Certainly not what I expected from the fourth book.

This is a pretty simple romance story with Arthur returning to Earth (somehow it's still there!) and meeting a girl Fenchurch. There's some pretty fun moments with them talking and Arthur losing her phone number. Then teaching her how to fly! They go off in search of the meaning of life and find out why the dolphins left Earth. It's quite charming.

Apparently Adams wrote this while locked in a hotel room by his editor.

Poznata je činjenica da svaka trilogija u pet nastavaka ima genijalan četvrti nastavak.
Douglas Adams je genije. Njegovo poigravanje sa SF žarom, kao da se ruga apsolutno svakom kalupu u koji ga žele smjestiti, a usput se ruga i gotovo svemu na ovom planetu, od demokracije do masovne halucinacije, pa do vječnog pitanja smisla života i znanosti. Toliko mi je žao da sam na pretposljednjem nastavku, žao mi je što svaku od ovih knjiga pročitam kroz nekoliko sati, volim ovo ludo putovanje svemirom i svaki put tako kratko traje.

Der vierte Band der Trilogie - ein Intermezzo ohne Delphine
Zitat (S. 155f):
"Er kommt aus einer sehr alten Demokratie..."
"Du meinst, er kommt von einem Eidechsenplaneten?"
"Nein..., so simpel ist es nicht... Auf dem Planeten sind Leute Leute. Die Anführer sind Echsen."
"Merkwürdig", sagte Arthur. "Ich meinte, du sagtest, es wäre eine Demokratie... Warum schaffen... die Leute sich die Echsen dann nicht vom Hals?"
"Das kommt ihnen ehrlich gesagt nicht in den Sinn", sagte Ford. "Sie haben alle das Wahlrecht, und so nehmen sie schlichtweg an, dass die Regierung, die sie gewählt haben, mehr oder weniger der Regierung nahe kommt, die sie sich wünschen."
"Du meinst, sie wählen tatsächlich die Echsen?"
"Aber ja..!"
"Aber," sagte Arthur..., "warum?"
"Weil, wenn sie keine Echsen wählen würden," sagte Fort, "kämen vielleicht die falschen Echsen ans Ruder."